Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) chairman Matt Schlapp is being accused of groping the crotch of a male staffer for Herschel Walker's campaign while driving back from a bar in October. Schlapp has some explaining to do to his wife Mercedes because this is kind of awkward.
Via The Daily Beast:
A staffer for Herschel Walker's Senate campaign has alleged to The Daily Beast that longtime Republican activist Matt Schlapp made "sustained and unwanted and unsolicited" sexual contact with him while the staffer was driving Schlapp back from an Atlanta bar this October.
The staffer said the incident occurred the night of Oct. 19, when Schlapp, chair of the American Conservative Union and lead organizer for the influential Conservative Political Action Conference, "groped" and "fondled" his crotch in his car against his will after buying him drinks at two different bars.
The staffer described Schlapp, who had traveled to Georgia for a Walker campaign event, as inappropriately and repeatedly intruding into his personal space at the bars. He said he was also keenly aware of his "power dynamic" with Schlapp, widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in national conservative politics.
This looks really bad.
Schlapp, chairman of CPAC, who approximately two hours ago put his hands on me in a sustained and unsolicited and unwanted manner.”
“Matt Schlapp of the CPAC grabbed my junk and pummeled it at length, and I’m sitting there thinking what the hell is going on, that this person is literally doing this to me,” the staffer said in the video.
“From the bar to the Hilton Garden Inn, he has his hands on me. And I feel so fucking dirty. I feel so fucking dirty,” he said.
The staffer told the outlet that Schlapp said he wanted to spend the evening discussing the staffer's professional future.
"It was a public space, and I was thinking that he got the hint. I did not want to embarrass him," he said. "But it escalated."
Schlapp, via an attorney, denied the allegations to the outlet, calling it a personal attack from The Daily Beast.
